Explain What Happens During Dark Adaptation, Including the Name of the Light-Sensitive

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Essay

Explain what happens during dark adaptation, including the name of the light-sensitive visual pigment involved, the amount of time that dark adaptation takes to occur, how it can be wiped out, and how it can be speeded up.

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Definitions:

Cars

Motor vehicles with four wheels, primarily used for transporting people rather than goods.

Lumber

Wood that has been processed into beams and planks, a stage in the process of wood production.

Heckscher-Ohlin Model

An economic theory that proposes countries will export products that utilize their abundant and cheap factors of production and import products that require factors of production that are scarce and expensive domestically.

Comparative Advantage

The ability of an individual or group to carry out a particular economic activity more efficiently than another activity.